Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:44:21 -0600 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Krzysztof Dajka <alteriks@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT boot with ZFS RAIDZ "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" Message-ID: <1258224261.2303.31.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <684e57ec0911140115oa5d3c63xec7b2913847ce2c6@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AD710D6.70404@buchlovice.org> <f383264b0911121654g3d15690eq4e6c92355e5368b6@mail.gmail.com> <1258087983.2303.23.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <f383264b0911122215h61d4d54as2d9511b6896a125f@mail.gmail.com> <1258122354.2303.24.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4AFDBFFB.3070009@freebsd.org> <684e57ec0911140115oa5d3c63xec7b2913847ce2c6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 10:15 +0100, Krzysztof Dajka wrote: > Thanks Matt for the patch. I used it with 8.0RC3 release. I installed > FreeBSD under Linux (KVM) my 3x500GB drives were mounted as a scsi > drives. Installation went smoothly but when I rebooted FreeBSD guest > it hang as usual ;) with "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies > unavailable", well it also spit out some LBA errors for the first > time. I was a little disappointed, because I've been trying for three > weeks to replace my Debian system with broken ext3 fs with FreeBSD on > raidz. But I thought to myself I'll give it a try, and run FreeBSD > native. To my suprise it welcomed me with login prompt. Once again > thanks for the patch. It would be good idea to merge it with final > release. This was approved by re@ and has been merged to the release branch. It should be included in 8.0-RELEASE. robert. > On 11/13/09, Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 13.11.2009 15:25, Robert Noland wrote: > >> I think we have missed the boat, but I'll talk to re@ and see if we > >> can get it in. > > > > The patch fixed GPT/ZFS booting for me, too. It would be good to have > > it in 8.0 (since it is definitely required to boot from ZFS pools with > > non-trivial sizes), and does not affect anybody not trying to boot > > this way. OTOH, it since you cannot just install FreeBSD on pure ZFS > > from sysinstall, it might be sufficient to prominently warn about this > > problem and point at the required patch, to prevent foot-shooting. > > > > But having this patch that has been successfully tested by a number > > of people that suffered from the GPT/ZFS boot problem looks highly > > preferable to me ... > > > > Regards, STefan > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD
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